'JOY THROUGH AMPLIFICATION.' Latest progress report.

alec · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 11:00 pm

Bill Nelson wrote:

a sort of 'sonic sorbet,' a respite

Bill Nelson wrote:

noisy fuzz box and wah-wah pedal tendancies

MG · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 11:01 pm

alec wrote:

Bill Nelson wrote:

a sort of 'sonic sorbet,' a respite

Bill Nelson wrote:

noisy fuzz box and wah-wah pedal tendancies

My ears are bleeding in anticipation. :twisted:

GettingOnTheBeam · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:49 pm

Is JTA kind of a follow up to Fancy Planets? I think Fancy Planets is great, and would love to hear a follow up or two to it...maybe turn it into a trilogy?

G

sauropod · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:08 pm

Bill Nelson wrote:

'Joy Through Amplification' is more, er, um...lets just say a tad more abrasive than many of my more rock oriented recordings...it features, (possibly,) the most serrated-edge stylings of any album of mine so far, with the possible exception of the Red Noise album. But, then again, it has very little of the 'rinky-dinkyness' of Red Noise. It leans more towards a kind of surrealistic metal, squall, shred, garage, twisted, hybrid-pop, romantic fusion. :shock:

It still sounds like me, of course, (hey, how could it be otherwise?) But if you're imagining that this momentary return to loud rock will equate to a nostalgic Be Bop Deluxe revival, you'll be barking up the wrong tree. This album is simply, just barking! :wink:

I think the sonic appeal of Sound on Sound is not "rinky-dink' at all. I can just imagine had you made the album today with the production skills you now possess how much more of a tour de force the album would be than it already is.

Don't pooh pooh this album, Bill. It's one of my all time faves and *still* sounds ahead of its time.

'Pod.

aquiresville · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:42 pm

sauropod wrote:

Bill Nelson wrote:

[color=#BF0000]...I think the sonic appeal of Sound on Sound is not "rinky-dink' at all. I can just imagine had you made the album today with the production skills you now possess how much more of a tour de force the album would be than it already is.

Don't pooh pooh this album, Bill. It's one of my all time faves and *still* sounds ahead of its time.

'Pod.

I'm here to "second" Pod's insightfulness on the the Red Noise phenomenon... still hyper-fresh (just played it several times last week!)

GettingOnTheBeam · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:56 pm

Yes Sound on Sound is certainly a classic. Like a lot of Bill's work, it was ahead of its time. If I am understanding "rinky-dink" correctly, I think that was part of its appeal. I couldn't imagine a version of "Don't Touch Me I'm Electric" any better.

G

Bill Nelson · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:40 pm **Posts:** 8549

'Rinky Dink' was not intended to be a negative or derogatory term at all, just a descriptive one.

'Joy Through Amplification' is not sci-fi future-dystopian, (as the Red Noise album was meant to be,) and has less 'on-off, stop-go-stop,' electrical nervous-system chicanery...(Although it's perhaps slightly more brutal, and certainly more sexual. There are enough flickering moments of down and dirty phallic guitar ecstasies to tire the most flexible wrist...) :wink:

Some might say that it functions as a 21st Century interpretation of the standard 20th Century rock/metal/pop genre...the guitar aspect is far more upfront and show-boaty than Red Noise...In some ways it's cruder and more simplistic, yet stylistically broader in it's scope, (compared to the 'Sound-On-Sound' album.) On the surface, it's a straighter, more ballsy collection of rock songs, with more hard-core distortion and wah-wah pedal work than you've previously heard from me, (whilst still retaining my love of melody and the occassional odd arrange-mental twist and turn...)

However, the 'interval' instrumental tracks between each vocal-based song are quite another thing: They're drifting, abstract, quirky miniatures, pieces which may prove mildly challenging to anyone buying the album purely for the rock music tracks...but the idea is to make these instrumentals feel appropriate and complimentary, to have them enhance the potency of the vocal/rock tracks, and to refresh the listener's ears before the next big bang kicks in.

This is simultaneously my most orthodox, yet paradoxically bizzarre, album of recent years. You'll have to wait a while yet to find out why, or even to decide if you feel otherwise. All I can say is that, despite my initial concerns about whether this was something I should be doing at this point in my life, I've become more and more pleased with it as the months since mastering the album have retreated in my rear-view mirror. If it takes me that amount of time to appreciate its charms, how will you fare?

Brassneck · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:44 pm

i hope u have dusted ur codpiece mr bill ive got my ticket only because i like the sound of your sound and u like this one !!!!!!!!!

John Spence · **Posted:** Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:00 pm

Just to be horribly anal....Rinky Dink and the Crystal Set...East Yorkshire based band signed to EMI circa 1975ish.
I have their one and only album (was given it)
Sorrry.
:oops:

felixt1 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:10 pm

Bill Nelson wrote:

'Rinky Dink' was not intended to be a negative or derogatory term at all, just a descriptive one.

'Joy Through Amplification' is not sci-fi future-dystopian, (as the Red Noise album was meant to be,) and has less 'on-off, stop-go-stop,' electrical nervous-system chicanery...(Although it's perhaps slightly more brutal, and certainly more sexual. There are enough flickering moments of down and dirty phallic guitar ecstasies to tire the most flexible wrist...) :wink:

Some might say that it functions as a 21st Century interpretation of the standard 20th Century rock/metal/pop genre...the guitar aspect is far more upfront and show-boaty than Red Noise...In some ways it's cruder and more simplistic, yet stylistically broader in it's scope, (compared to the 'Sound-On-Sound' album.) On the surface, it's a straighter, more ballsy collection of rock songs, with more hard-core distortion and wah-wah pedal work than you've previously heard from me, (whilst still retaining my love of melody and the occassional odd arrange-mental twist and turn...)

However, the 'interval' instrumental tracks between each vocal-based song are quite another thing: They're drifting, abstract, quirky miniatures, pieces which may prove mildly challenging to anyone buying the album purely for the rock music tracks...but the idea is to make these instrumentals feel appropriate and complimentary, to have them enhance the potency of the vocal/rock tracks, and to refresh the listener's ears before the next big bang kicks in.

This is simultaneously my most orthodox, yet paradoxically bizzarre, album of recent years. You'll have to wait a while yet to find out why, or even to decide if you feel otherwise. All I can say is that, despite my initial concerns about whether this was something I should be doing at this point in my life, I've become more and more pleased with it as the months since mastering the album have retreated in my rear-view mirror. If it takes me that amount of time to appreciate its charms, how will you fare?

Well.........I become more and more intrigued

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